He can't afford to run a tumble-down rectory like ours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hepsey Burke] Reference

Didcot with its Banbury cakes and tumble-down station is passed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference

Pullen, he says as there's a tumble-down lime-kiln in that hollow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls] Reference

We choose two of the tumble-down vehicles and go after the ladies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873] Reference

There was only one worn-out, dilapidated, tumble-down thing in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference

In one of the tumble-down shacks near the sea we found the Sultana.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route] Reference

On the left a tumble-down rockery, with a headless plaster Mercury.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 25, 1893] Reference

Mr. Forbes took me in his open wagon, a tumble-down affair he has from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)] Reference

Out he goes; and, leaving the tumble-down town behind him, he mounts the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference

It suited the damp unpainted houses and the tumble-down blacksmith's-shop.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference

I shall alter that tumble-down house of his, and new-furnish the drawing-room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kate Coventry An Autobiography] Reference

He was pointing to a tumble-down shed a few yards from the road to their right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men Called Him Master] Reference

The buildings at Holl were all in a tumble-down state; the furniture was no better.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Icelandic Short Stories] Reference

I'm tired of living here as we do in this miserable, tumble-down place we call home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Lost Sister] Reference

The little Jimsons were not playing in the mud outside the tumble-down house as usual.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King's Daughter and Other Stories for Girls] Reference

Do you see yon rickety, tumble-down building, scarce big enough for a good-sized family?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France] Reference

Her house near the site selected for the new palace was old and in a tumble-down condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Malayan Literature] Reference

Do you see that old wharf with the tumble-down warehouses, and the long row of elms behind it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference

But to Gerry, with the tumble-down house fresh in her memory, it was all that could be desired.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King's Daughter and Other Stories for Girls] Reference

Finally she turns down a narrow, crooked alley and enters a tumble-down house at the farther end.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Alchemist's Secret] Reference

In the vicinity is a large barn and several smaller outhouses, thrown in a tumble-down condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference

He must mean this poor little tumble-down house of His, that was certainly on the point of falling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light] Reference

On the march hither we passed a little, contemptible, tumble-down, seven-by-nine frame school-house.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference

At the corner of the promenade, just where the old city and the new city meet, is a tumble-down mill.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Cross] Reference

But, however tumble-down and squalid his dwelling may be, there is always a landlord who can evict him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conquest of Bread] Reference

The people are more squalid, the houses more wretched: the very mosque itself is in a dirty, tumble-down condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference

They lived in a tumble-down house in a waste of land near the steam cars, and besides her hens Mrs. Bob owned a goat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas] Reference

There are the Jimsons in their tumble-down house, and here are we with a perfectly whole, clean barn without even a cat in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King's Daughter and Other Stories for Girls] Reference

The unpainted shanties, the huddled, tottering dives, the tumble-down express station -- all, even the maudlin masquerade of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference

The foreigner was hurrying along the brink of the excavation, evidently heading for a small tumble-down cabin at its farther end.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity] Reference

As a result of her generous offer, she was allowed to rent a tumble-down, unoccupied building, and opened her school with six pupils!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten American Girls From History] Reference

The Tinker's family sat round a fire, in one of the tumble-down wooden cottages that dotted the outskirts of the little town of Ruhla.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soap-Bubble Stories For Children] Reference

A few years after her birth Owenson, having quarrelled with Daly, invested his savings in a tumble-down building known as the Old Music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference

By that time, however, Tonio was sleeping soundly beside the piebalds in shelter of a tumble-down wall, with the monkey curled closely in against his dusky breast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls] Reference